UIWebView Cookies?

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UIWebView Cookies?

Hi,

How does one enable the use of cookies for a UIWebView, in an iPhone App? I have a JavaScript based web application that runs via storing and loading cookies, and it works on all platforms, expect the iPhone.

Does anyone know a solution to this? I've heard "NSHTTPCookieStorage" serves to control this behaviour, but how to implement it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Boki

iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo), Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Jan 12, 2010 4:26 PM

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RayNewbie

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Jan 12, 2010 8:56 PM in response to kenoi

Have you tried any of the sample code in this SO thread?: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/704985/objective-c-asynchronous-web-request -with-cookies]
\- Ray

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kenoi Author

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Jan 15, 2010 10:35 AM in response to RayNewbie

Thank you for the link, but there's way too much code there... I'm not sure what it is that I need to enable cookies for my app. Any tipps?

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sptrakesh

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Jan 15, 2010 11:14 AM in response to kenoi

As the NSHTTPCookieStorage states, it is a singleton, hence any changes you make to the storage is available to any component that uses it (including UIWebView). Perhaps all you need is to set the cookie via a background NSURLConnection and then launch UIWebView...

http://blog.andrewpaulsimmons.com/2008/08/add-set-and-delete-cookies-in-uiwebvie w.html

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kenoi Author

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Jan 15, 2010 8:59 PM in response to sptrakesh

Hi sptrakesh,

I've just tried to set it up the way you're telling me, but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know... Maybe this whole thing about UIWebView being able to store cookies is a myth...

Maybe iPhones only accept cookies when it comes to Mobile Safari...

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sptrakesh

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Jan 16, 2010 3:08 AM in response to kenoi

I am not sure if that has changed, but that was true with early versions of the iPhone OS.

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kenoi Author

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Jan 16, 2010 1:06 PM in response to sptrakesh

Hmm... Well, thank you for your help, sptrakesh. Sometimes 'no can do' is an answer too.

I hope this is a feature that Apple will implement in future versions of the iPhone OS. I don't think cookies would prove to be much of a security threat (they are just tiny text files, after all).

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